Lars Lerup (Sweden, 1940), an architect and academic, is a professor and dean emeritus at the Rice School of Architecture in Houston, as well as a professor emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley. In 2001 he received his doctorate. Honorary He studied at Lund's Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden, and in the 2009/10 academic year was awarded the Harold W. Brunner Prize from the American Academy in Rome. His work focuses on the intersection of nature and culture in the contemporary American metropolis. He is the author of Villa Prima Facie (1976) Building the unfinished (1977) Planned Assaults (1987) After the City (2000) One Million Acres & No Zoning (2010) and The Continuous City (2017).